In the newsvendor game, the expected-profit-maximizing order quantity is higher in the demand interval when the per-unit profit margin is high and lower in the demand interval when the per-unit profit margin is low. However, laboratory experiments show a "pull-to-center" effect: average order...

This paper reports an experiment in which subjects are asked to assess probabilities for unknown events, with treatments that vary the extremity of the prior information. Probabilities are elicited using a Becker-DeGroot-Marshak procedure that does not depend on assumptions about risk aversion....

Advances in communications technology and the impetus for deregulation have stimulated the development of new types of markets, some of which are implemented by public agencies on very large scales, e.g. national broadcasting spectrum auctions. In other cases, policy issues arise from the...

This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment based on exclusive contracts that may theoretically lead to inefficient "naked exclusion" of a potential rival. The data indicate that changes in the number of buyers in the market have no significant effect on exclusion rates but the...